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Trump administration says DOGE may have misused Social Security data
"DOGE, which dominated headlines after Elon Musk and his band of twenty-somethings inserted themselves into the most sensitive government operation in early 2025, has dropped off the front pages, but the abuses are having long lasting impact. There are echoes of how Trump backed away from his public embrace of Project 2025 when opposition arose in the abrupt termination of DOGE and Musk’s disappearance from favored status in the Oval Office.
Today, the Justice Department revealed in a court filing, made to ensure “candor” to the court, that the Social Security Administration discovered in December and conveyed to DOJ counsel that there were violations of the court's injunction regarding DOGE’s activities that they had just become privy to. Among them was this:
“SSA determined in its recent review that in March 2025, a political advocacy group contacted two members of SSA’s DOGE Team with a request to analyze state voter rolls that the advocacy group had acquired. The advocacy group’s stated aim was to find evidence of voter fraud and to overturn election results in certain States. In connection with these communications, one of the DOGE team members signed a ‘Voter Data Agreement,’ in his capacity as an SSA employee, with the advocacy group. He sent the executed agreement to the advocacy group on March 24, 2025.”
The pleading indicates that no one at the Social Security Administration was aware of what the DOGE employees were doing and that “In late December 2025, SSA made two Hatch Act referrals to the U.S. Office of Special Counsel related to the activities described.”
Senator Chuck Schumer tweeted, “It was never about curtailing waste, fraud, and abuse. The DOJ just admitted DOGE was ‘secretly’ in touch with advocacy groups ‘seeking to overturn election results.”’The idea being: use a trove of personal information to disenfranchise voters and change election results. DOGE accessing your data was illegal. Using it to overturn election results is illegal. We must hold the DOGE staff involved accountable.”
No one should be holding their breath for the Trump administration to suddenly begin taking the Hatch Act seriously. But Judge Ellen Hollander could and should be extremely unhappy about what she learned from the government today."
another reason scotus verdicts are mostly a trump loyalty test. regardless of how they rule, its only the feared potential impact on individual gop members down the wrung determines the extent compliance is rendered.
So now all US citizens are more at risk on identify theft on behalf of DOGE. We have our credit frozen a year ago so that no one can open new credit cards under our names.
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"DOGE, which dominated headlines after Elon Musk and his band of twenty-somethings inserted themselves into the most sensitive government operation in early 2025, has dropped off the front pages, but the abuses are having long lasting impact. There are echoes of how Trump backed away from his public embrace of Project 2025 when opposition arose in the abrupt termination of DOGE and Musk’s disappearance from favored status in the Oval Office.
Today, the Justice Department revealed in a court filing, made to ensure “candor” to the court, that the Social Security Administration discovered in December and conveyed to DOJ counsel that there were violations of the court's injunction regarding DOGE’s activities that they had just become privy to. Among them was this:
“SSA determined in its recent review that in March 2025, a political advocacy group contacted two members of SSA’s DOGE Team with a request to analyze state voter rolls that the advocacy group had acquired. The advocacy group’s stated aim was to find evidence of voter fraud and to overturn election results in certain States. In connection with these communications, one of the DOGE team members signed a ‘Voter Data Agreement,’ in his capacity as an SSA employee, with the advocacy group. He sent the executed agreement to the advocacy group on March 24, 2025.”
The pleading indicates that no one at the Social Security Administration was aware of what the DOGE employees were doing and that “In late December 2025, SSA made two Hatch Act referrals to the U.S. Office of Special Counsel related to the activities described.”
Senator Chuck Schumer tweeted, “It was never about curtailing waste, fraud, and abuse. The DOJ just admitted DOGE was ‘secretly’ in touch with advocacy groups ‘seeking to overturn election results.”’The idea being: use a trove of personal information to disenfranchise voters and change election results.
DOGE accessing your data was illegal. Using it to overturn election results is illegal. We must hold the DOGE staff involved accountable.”
No one should be holding their breath for the Trump administration to suddenly begin taking the Hatch Act seriously. But Judge Ellen Hollander could and should be extremely unhappy about what she learned from the government today."
another reason scotus verdicts are mostly a trump loyalty test. regardless of how they rule, its only the feared potential impact on individual gop members down the wrung determines the extent compliance is rendered.